Abandoned New Trading Tool: ETN

BlackTalos

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fractalsauce said:
I've been using ETN for the past month or 2 and it seems to go down like this without notice for a 24-48 hours or so and then come back just as mysteriously as it disappeared.

Basically, don't worry, it should be back up soon :)
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Yeah, i have noticed the random downtime too, but usually accompanied by a "wait for fix" message on the page.

This time the website is unreachable and has been for quite a few hours (don't think it's been 24 yet), so I might be getting a little worried.
EDDB is okay, but ETN was intuitive, fast and reliable :D
 

Carabeener

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BlackTalos said:
Yeah, i have noticed the random downtime too, but usually accompanied by a "wait for fix" message on the page.

This time the website is unreachable and has been for quite a few hours (don't think it's been 24 yet), so I might be getting a little worried.
EDDB is okay, but ETN was intuitive, fast and reliable :D
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Still down :( Hopefully this is temporary.
 

Joe113

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Server should be reliable now. I've moved major database updates to a secondary database and the update runs in the background.

I also did a bunch of performance optimizations. You should see faster queries now. I reduced the load on the database by about a factor of 10. The biggest benefit came from packing pricing data into one database row per station. There are over 2.9 million price points in the database and joining against that table was taking half a second. I tried a bunch of different indexing approaches. In the end the best solution was to pack the data and unpack it on the fly during the simulation.
 

Joe113

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Just added two new features:
1. Minimum supply. Filters out trades where the supply of goods is below this number. If you leave this empty the default minimum is the cargo size of your ship.
2. Proper meta tags so if you add ETN to your home screen on your phone or tablet, it will start in fullscreen without address bar, etc.
 

Tigon

Tigon
Many thanks J, just checked a couple of things and the speed is amazing. Thanks for the minimum supply option too: VERY useful.

Apprecation: 4-pips
 
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Joe113

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I noticed the server was bogging down a bit with the weekend load and made one final performance tweak to resolve that and make queries it even faster.
 

eyeslayer

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so is this updated to provide correct market data now? i tried to use it but as i followed the list most of it i lost profit on or the stations didn't sell. so I'm wondering.
 

Joe113

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The data is all user submitted, so it varies by station. You can see in the trade summary how old the data is for each trade. If you run EDMC it can update ETN in real time so you'll always have the latest data at the stations you frequent.
 

ChaiFox

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Ship import bug?

I recently started playing again and this tool is AMAZING unfortunately when I attempt to import ship data from E:D Shipyard I get "Failed parsing cargo size." Anyways thank you for your work on this [up]
 

dree

dree
I tried that too once, with the same result, no problem.
The only thing is that with my engineered ship the number of jumps are not correct.
Maybe it's better if you just can fill out your jump range....
 

Joe113

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dree said:
I tried that too once, with the same result, no problem.
The only thing is that with my engineered ship the number of jumps are not correct.
Maybe it's better if you just can fill out your jump range....
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The trick with jump range is that it increases after each jump as you drain your fuel tank. Your max jump range occurs when you have just enough fuel to make a jump. ETN takes this into account in root planning.

I need to modify ETN to understand the impact to mass and optimal mass due to engineered FSDs. I'll put it on the task list. Thanks for the heads up.
 

Joe113

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ETN slowdowns solved

MySQL tip: it turns out that INSERT/ON DUPLICATE UPDATE is way more efficient than REPLACE INTO. That one change made a huge difference in server peak CPU usage, especially on weekends. It makes sense... UPDATE is faster than DELETE + INSERT.
 

dree

dree
Joe113 said:
The trick with jump range is that it increases after each jump as you drain your fuel tank. Your max jump range occurs when you have just enough fuel to make a jump.
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Does ED calculate that way?
That would mean that I will not be able to jump my last jumps If I scoop fuel......
Or is this wrong thinking?

If number of jumps is calculated by my own given jump range I can fiddle with it.
 

SPCStarFighter

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Sorry that this is a bit off topic, but I've only just got back to ED having been away on other projects & work for about a year, have upgraded my computer & tried to use REGULATEDNOISE & ELITEOCR & just keep getting errors & crashes from them. Does anyone know if there's a working version for windows 10 64 bit out there somewhere ? I loved the simplicity of the interface & the automated import / export to EDDB by using F10 screenshots of the commodities screens.
Any help gratefully received.
 

Kalvorax

Kalvorax
Really useful, though it would be nice to copy system locations so we can paste them into the cartographics to make it that much faster for trading...unless there is a way that i dont know of? (gah, just remember i have a spare tablet lying around that i can try using....but still)
 
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